and about big "rocks"
it's indeed the time for Claude Askolovitch story of the week
Come in, come in Claude, welcome
a little "rock", Claude Askolovitch, which is bringing us to the US
and Claude, you are much more stable than Donald Trump, right ?
This is what we claim: It's true that in the US -
That's what being said
In the US, a question is being asked,
and our story is actually that question:
Is the president of the USA crazy? "Cuckoo" ? "Lunatic" ?
That is for you dear Anne Elisabeth
And that is a question that real psychologists, mental workers, psychiatrist, are asking themselves.
They were meeting yesterday in Yale University
to discuss if getting this man out of the white house would be better for the human kind
there is already a petition on this topic, that has been signed by several thousands of people since February
we have to understand this:
The grey matter of Donald Trump has become a topic to debate,
or a completely common conversation topic in the US
and among the worrying people, there are even two parts:
So first, yours, if I understand correctly Renaud,
He would be crazy
and others say that it is not really Donald Trump fault,
But this 70 years old man would simply start becoming prematurely senile
he would show the first signs of dementia
or of the Alzheimer disease
this is the theory defended by a guys in his 30's, 30 years old people have no doubts
Brilliant, his name is David Pakman
He has a TV show, he already explained once that Donald Trump might not be able to read
and in this case, he decided it was mainly Alzheimer
He has exposed methodically all the president's oddness as as much clinical signs.
so, his limited vocabulary
His use, and abuse of childish language
Great, smart, good, bad
his lack of inhibition, his incoherence, and even his dizziness
Because he is dizzy sometimes
all those signs would show that the disease all already reached his brain
If you want we can also play on this show
let's look for signs of dementia about Trump
for example this blank stare of a man, lost in his world and in his bubble
when poor Angela Merkel wanted to shake his hand
or this way he had recently to talk about the Syrian bombing
he was eating the best chocolate cake ever with the Chinese president
when suddenly he had the idea
except that when he told the story on fox news, he said he bombed Irak, and not Syria, he didn't remember
senile, or crazy Donald Trump? place your bets ladies and gentlemen
one thing still: "Only in America". it is America
When we talk about free speech,
it is different than us : when we call a politician crazy, we don't do it seriously, they do.
now, we can also resist to this fascination
wondering why this conversation about Trump potential dementia or craziness pulled off so easily
is it because this man is actually weird
or because the politic he tries to run is so different from what the enlighten and progressives elites believe
and that at the end it's reassuring that this man is bad or completely crazy
because he refuses for example to fight against global warming
a monster or a madman? a madman is more reassuring
and here we need to answer an other essentially democratic question:
in the past, in the soviet union, dissidents were send away, when they refused to admit the perfection and beauty of communism
of course, USSR was a dictatorship and we are democracies
and the ones that talk about Trump's brain are the self-proclaimed quintessence of the progressist, enlighten and democrat elites
except that doing everything to make your opponent a jerk, a madman, a fool, a person with dementia
and considering that electors voted for a jerk, madman, fool
are we still in lucidity or already in the comptent of class
but at the same time he's weird right?
Pacal Blanchard, you are not crazy, aren't you?
No, no, it is more complicated than that
In the US, there were a lot of studies done on Reagan, from 1994
and especially on the semiotics of his speeches
and it has been proved, and demonstrated afterward
that he was actually sick
and by the vocabulary, and by his words - wait, let me finish
by the word he was using - wait, wait -
yes, but by his world, it was found that at this point he already had been hit by the disease
and therefore by the vocabulary he was using, we could measure each of them
that means that is not scientifically aberrant to wonder
about the mental health -
but it is 6 years after he left the white house
doesn't matter
reagan was elected in 1980
we do psychiatry on a brand new president that just entered the white house
exactly, thanks to what have been said about others, we can measure, quantify and see
at any point if there is an impoverishment of the vocabulary
but wait, in both cases, it's just right wing president for which we are asking those questions
laughs- too easy!
we are in a historical moment right now in french politic
we have the elite of the politic observers
a man that applies his programs and keep his words, is either crazy or insane
so for me people that takes the responsibility to send missiles on -
I was about to say saddam hussein, you see i have dementia as well
on syria
it's contagious !
it's because it'sthe same conflict
someone that takes the responsibility to do a war act, compared to those who said they will do, and wait for commissions
I would like more french politics to have Alzheimer, and keep their promises
and keep their own words, and their engagements,
he was elected for that, he kept his word, he is obviously a jerk
some dictators would we worrying if they would keep their word when they would access to power
a dictator is not someone that is elected
feel reassured, doctor yakana is here, and have the diagnosis from Yakana
yes, so Donald trump has a blackout
this disease here, I forgot its name, it rhymes with twitter, Alzheimer, ah yes, there it is
thanks yakana